Initiation into the Mysteries

A collection of studies in Religion, Philosophy an the Art

Eniko Sepsi

• Éditeur: Harmattan Hongrie
• Année: 2020
• ISBN de l'eBook: 9782336908298
• Sujet: Sciences sociales
• Sujet: Sociologie

The present volume offers an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four studies to readers interested in the religious, philosophical and artistic aspects of initiation. In itself, the concept of initiation presupposes that there is an initiator, someone to be initiated, and secret rite or knoweledge-in short, a mystery-into which the elect few would be admitted and which must not be revealed to the rest. Initiation is thus very personal, as it encompasses-in Christian theology at least-an encounter with God but also involves a communal experience.While in European context, initiation is an essentially Christian idea, not all the papers of the present volume turn to the Christian tradition for sources. Hermetism, Neoplatonism, pre-Christian paganism and Renaissance esotericism also find a place among the studies published here. Religion and philosophy are not the only viewpoints adopted by our authors, however; the section on art and litterature discusses initiation as it appears on stage, in novels, short stories, and drama as well as poetry, especially in modern European literature.

THE STATUE OF ARTEMIS EPHESIA IN THE LIGHT OF PORPHYRY’S ON THE CAVE OF THE NYMPHS

Zsuzsanna Turcsán-Tóth

Abstract

Artemis Ephesia was one of the most widely worshipped deities of the Graeco – Roman world. Although her cult existed for almost one thousand years, most of the replicas of her cult statue have been dated to the second century AD, and the earliest such statue can be dated to the late Hellenic period. It is difficult to examine the sculptures of Artemis Ephesia, as most of the statues were restored to some degree over the centuries, so we have to analyze the parts of the sculptures that were the least affected by the modifications, namely, the chest. Some of the most common adornments on the Artemis Ephesia statue are the female figures and the Cancer. Earlier research on these elements analyzed them separately from each other, but if we consider them as one common scene, they can be interpreted with the help of Porphyry’s De antro nympharum.

In analyses of the figures of ancient goddesses, an inquiry into the statues of Artemis Ephesia is one of the most exciting tasks. Many monographs, articles, and books have been published on this topic. If we think of the first polyhistor who studied this issue in depth, then we can state that research has been trying to understand the secrets of this...

Table des matières

• Cover
• 4th cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Endre Ádám Hamvas: Initiation in the Hermetica
• Stefan Freund: Cyprian’s Ad Donatum as a Mystagogic Protrepticus
• Zsuzsanna Turcsán-Tóth: The Statue of Artemis Ephesia in the Light of Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs
• Filip Doroszewski: Rite or Metaphor? The Use of ὄργια in the Works of the Greek Christian Writers of the 4th and 5th Centuries
• István Pásztori-Kupán: Faith as a Prerequisite to the Initiation into the Mysteries in Theodoret of Cyrus
• Anna Judit Tóth: Dionysus and his Doppelgängers in John Lydus
• Vilmos Voigt: A Mystery among the Mysteries: Are there Old Icelandic mysteries?
• Anikó Daróczi: Wording the Silence: Initiatory Reading of Mystical Texts
• György E. Szönyi: A Christian-Hermetic-Judaic Initiation into the Mysteries: Lodovico Lazzarelli’s Crater Hermetis (ca 1493)
• Zsuzsanna Kövi, Levente Fogarassy, Zsuzsanna Mirnics, Anna Mersdorf, Zoltán Vass: Spiritual Experiences in Adventure Therapy
• Gerd Van Riel: Mysticism and Rationality. A Neoplatonic Perspective
• Miklós Vassányi: Transcending Transcendence: The Mystery of God in Part 4 of St Denys the Areopagite’s On the Divine Names
• Monika Frazer-Imregh: Initiation into Mysteries in Pico’s Works
• Antonio dall’Igna: Is the Mysticism of Giordano Bruno a Form of Initiation?
• Martin Moors: Which Initiation does not Lead Astray from the True Mysteries? The Later Schelling’s Quest for a True Method Compared with the Pre-critical and Critical Kant
• Orsolya Horváth: Hermeneutical Borderline Situations—Kierkegaard and the Compelling Sign
• Kate Larson : Authentic Presence—A Phenomenology of Initiation
• György Zoltán Józsa: Initiation Drama in Russian Symbolism
• Léna Szilárd: The Development of the Genre of the Initiation Novel in 20th-century Russian Literature—Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita
• Katalin G. Kállay: Initiation and its Travesty in The River by Flannery O’Connor
• Anita Rákóczy: Denials of the Divine: Traces of Ineluctable Presence in the Antecedents of Samuel Beckett’s Fin de partie, Endgame, and Film
• Enikő Sepsi: Theatrical Approaches to Mystery: “Kenosis” in Valère Novarina’s Works
• Johanna Domokos: Endurance Running as Initiation into the Mysteries. A Case Study based on the Fiction of Jari Ehrnrooth
• Melinda Sebők: The Aesthetics of Silence in György Rónay’s Poetry
• Bio-Notes
• A Sorozatban Eddig Megjelent
• L’Harmattan France-Hongrie, Collection Károli
• Jegyzet